tete-a-tete

• “Since Sarney's last tete-a-tete with the Americans, tensions had mounted in the Essequibo region, with Guyana accusing Venezuela of militarily invading its territory to stave off gold mining operations.”

  The Huffington Post: Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean

• “Unlike the Bush era, when meetings such as the Brownfield-Izarra tete-a-tete ended in failure, the political climate seemed much improved during the first months of the incoming Obama administration.”

  The Huffington Post: Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: U.S.-Venezuela Journalist Exchange; Charitable View of Obama, Cash Seizure at Venezuelan Airport

• “By doing so, he would initiate an entomological tete-a-tete between the wasps and the emerald ash borer, a green-winged, torpedo-shaped beetle that looks at the gleaming shaft of wood in Alex Rodriguez's hands and sees a scrumptious meal for its children.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Bugs Rescuing the Baseball Bats

• “Now they must decide if there will be another tete-a-tete and just what that might signal.”

  The Washington Post: GOP/Tea Party Blind Date Ends Tuesday

• “But could a tete-a-tete with a witty writer, known for punching up scripts, loosen her up?”

  The Washington Post: Nora Ephron tries to draw out Nancy Pelosi at Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Summit"

• “That time at least, Tuck was referring to Burress, before the tete-a-tete with Coughlin.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Focus Shifts to Umenyiora, Burress

• “To address the conundrum, a Tuesday tete-a-tete between Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy was supposed to move things further along, beyond what's looked like, so far, as a "rob Peter to pay Paul" approach.”

  The Huffington Post: Lydia Fisher: From "Too Big to Fail" Banks to "Too Big to Default" Nations to What's Next?

• “The tete-a-tete, yielded talk about procuring a Euro Chief and more collaboration on fiscal discipline.”

  The Huffington Post: Lydia Fisher: From "Too Big to Fail" Banks to "Too Big to Default" Nations to What's Next?

• “How 'bout you, I say, hoping to get this tete-a-tete done and move on to a more profitable one.”

  Fictionaut: My Gall Bladder is Really Warm Today

• “My guess is he drives away from his melodramatic tete-a-tete with a sore head and ribs.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » When a Police Officer Pulls Over a Law Student

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